[TriLUG] Apache innaccessible from outside of home router

[Victor Snesarev]

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 17:49 -0400, Victor Snesarev wrote:
> 
>>Thanks for the tip! I tried from an external shell account and was able 
>>to get through to the FC2 PC.
>>
>>It is strange that I cannot reach the FC2 PC via a Windows PC running on 
>>the same LAN by going through the external IP address. Must be some kind 
>>of NAT restriction. Can anyone recommend how to get around this?
>>
>>One way is obviously to use the internal LAN address when on the LAN and 
>>use the external router address when accessing the FC2 PC from the outside.
> 
> 
> The fact that you are doing it from a windows machine could be a red
> herring. Some appliance NAT routers have spotty or no support for server
> address loopback (in other words connections from the LAN side to the
> WAN address on a port which is routed to a LAN machine). Can you reach
> Apache from the FC2 machine it's running on using the WAN address?
> 
Yes, I agree that the fact the other machine is Windows is irrelevant. I 
tried, and I cannot reach Apache from the FC2 machine using the WAN 
address. Thinking about it now, the fact that the TCP handshake was 
terminated by the router and not the FC2 machine points at the router.

Thanks,
Victor